A Bright Shining Lie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Bright Shining Lie write by Neil Sheehan. This book was released on 2009-10-20. A Bright Shining Lie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most acclaimed books of our time—the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to convince his superiors that the war should be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that the war had been won. In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, a renowned journalist tells the story of John Vann—"the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam"—and of the tragedy that destroyed a country and squandered so much of America's young manhood and resources.
A Bright Shining Lie
A Bright Shining Lie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Bright Shining Lie write by Neil Sheehan. This book was released on 2010-08-03. A Bright Shining Lie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Superb. If you ever read just one history of the Vietnam war, read and admire and celebrate this one ' John le Carré WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION Outspoken, professional and fearless, Lt. Col. John Paul Vann went to Vietnam in 1962, full of confidence in America's might and right to prevail. He was soon appalled by the South Vietnamese troops' unwillingness to fight, by their random slaughter of civilians and by the arrogance and corruption of the US military. He flouted his supervisors and leaked his sharply pessimistic - and, as it turned out, accurate - assessments to the US press corps in Saigon. Among them was Sheehan, who became fascinated by the angry Vann, befriended him and followed his tragic and reckless career. Sixteen years in the making, A Bright Shining Lie is an eloquent and disturbing portrait of a man who in many ways personified the US war effort in Vietnam, of a solider cast in the heroic mould, an American Lawrence of Arabia. Blunt, idealistic, patronising to the Vietnamese, Vann was haunted by a shameful secret - the fact that he was the illegitimate son of a 'white trash' prostitute. Gambling away his career, Vann left the army that he loved and returned to Vietnam as a civilian in the pacification programme. He rose to become the first American civilian to wield a general's command in war. When he was killed in 1972, he was mourned at Arlington cemetery by leading political figures of the day. Sheehan recounts his astonishing story in this intimate and intense meditation on a conflict that scarred the conscience of a nation.
A Bright Shining Lie
A Bright Shining Lie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Bright Shining Lie write by Neil Sheehan. This book was released on 1998. A Bright Shining Lie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning monument of history and biography, Sheehan tells the story of John Paul Vann--the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam--and the tragedy that destroyed a country and squandered so much of America's young manhood and resources.
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Fiery Peace in a Cold War write by Neil Sheehan. This book was released on 2010-10-05. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The US-Soviet arms race, told through the story of a colorful and visionary American Air Force officer—melding biography, history, world affairs, and science to transport the reader back and forth from individual drama to world stage. "Compulsively readable and important.” —The New York Times Book Review In this never-before-told story, Neil Sheehan—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award -- details American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever’s quest to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, and describes American efforts to develop the unstoppable nuclear-weapon delivery system, the intercontinental ballistic missile, the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger. In a sweeping narrative, Sheehan brings to life a huge cast of some of the most intriguing characters of the cold war, including the brilliant physicist John Von Neumann, and the hawkish Air Force general, Curtis LeMay.
Vietnam
Vietnam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vietnam write by Michael Lind. This book was released on 2013-07-30. Vietnam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Michael Lind casts new light on one of the most contentious episodes in American history in this controversial bestseller. In this groundgreaking reinterpretation of America's most disatrous and controversial war, Michael Lind demolishes enduring myths and put the Vietnam War in its proper context—as part of the global conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. Lind reveals the deep cultural divisions within the United States that made the Cold War consensus so fragile and explains how and why American public support for the war in Indochina declined. Even more stunning is his provacative argument that the United States failed in Vietnam because the military establishment did not adapt to the demands of what before 1968 had been largely a guerrilla war. In an era when the United States so often finds itself embroiled in prolonged and difficult conflicts, Lind offers a sobering cautionary tale to Ameicans of all political viewpoints.
